Sports poets

English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824)

English writer and poet (1865–1936)

Euripides (; , ; ) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Nineteen plays attributed to Euripides have survived more or less complete, although one of these (Rhesus) is often considered not to be genuinely his work. Many fragments (some of them substantial) survive from most of his other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Soph

British author and scholar (1832–1898)

American poet, essayist and journalist (1819–1892)

American poet (1874–1963)

English author and Christian apologist (1874–1936)

British playwright (1930–2008)

Pindar (; ; ; ) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian wrote, "Of the nine lyric poets, Pindar is by far the greatest, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich exuberance of his language and matter, and his rolling flood of eloquence, characteristics which, as Horace rightly held, make him inimitable." His poems can also, however, seem difficult and even peculiar. The Athenian comic playwright Eupolis once remarked that they "are already reduced

American novelist, poet (1932–2009)

American writer and editor (1878–1967)

American poet (1887–1972)

British classical scholar and poet (1859-1936)

American poet (1902–1971)

Australian journalist, author and poet (1864 - 1941)

British singer-songwriter (b. 1941)

Irish poet and playwright (1907–1963)

American poet, editor, literary critic, academic (born 1940)

American mystery writer (1913-2011)

American writer (1928–2018)

English writer (1862–1938)

poet (1920-1991)

American sportswriter (1880-1954)

American poet (1923–1982)

American author and poet (1863–1940)

American writer (1899–1977)

British boxer and poet (1922–2007)

South African poet